Analyzing Photo-Electric Smoke Detector Response Based On Aspirated Smoke Detector Obscuration

dc.contributor.advisorMilke, James Aen_US
dc.contributor.authorMiller, John Herbert Thomasen_US
dc.contributor.departmentFire Protection Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-03T05:35:04Z
dc.date.available2010-07-03T05:35:04Z
dc.date.issued2010en_US
dc.description.abstractAccurate obscuration levels at the response time of photo-electric smoke detectors are needed for proper detection modeling and analysis. In recent works, obscuration meters were used to measure the obscuration level at photo-electric detector response. In this study, aspirated smoke detectors (VESDA) were used to measure this same obscuration level. These detailed measurements were used to reduce the ambient light and the technology difference error associated with the obscuration meters. The use of aspirated smoke detection (VESDA) instead of light obscuration meters displayed increased accuracy for a majority of the experiments conducted in the 2008 report titled "Validation of a Smoke Detection Performance Prediction Methodology" involving flaming and non-flaming incipient fire sources at 3 different ventilation conditions.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/10455
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEngineering, Generalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledaspirated smoke detectoren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddetector responseen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledobscurationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledphoto-electric smoke detectoren_US
dc.titleAnalyzing Photo-Electric Smoke Detector Response Based On Aspirated Smoke Detector Obscurationen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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